Vidal
Vidal is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 38 births. Its best rank was 621st, in 1972.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 380.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1972161 births
- Best rank
- #621in 1972
- Since 1909
- 4,198people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,198 boys have been named Vidal in the United States since 1909, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1972, with 161 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1987, and the 1990s alone account for 18%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Vidal | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 9 | |
| 1910s | 40 | |
| 1920s | 136 | |
| 1930s | 169 | |
| 1940s | 164 | |
| 1950s | 289 | |
| 1960s | 276 | |
| 1970s | 603 | |
| 1980s | 570 | |
| 1990s | 751 | |
| 2000s | 589 | |
| 2010s | 421 | |
| 2020s | 181 |
In 1972, its biggest year
Vidal was the 621st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1972 were Michael, Christopher, James, David and John. See all of 1972.
Names that rose and fell with Vidal
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gilbertopeak 1993
- Alfredopeak 1993
- Raulpeak 2000
- Ernestopeak 2003
- Arturopeak 2005
- Juventinopeak 1991
- Claudiopeak 1996
- Armandopeak 1997
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.